Diplomacy

Russia’s standing as a peace broker in Syria and its trusted diplomatic power was no doubt key to averting the brink of disaster in the Caucasus.

This outcome was reached in such a convoluted, contentious and highly dubious way that it will leave the American people more divided than ever.

The biggest and most consequential U.S. foreign policy failure involves nuclear weapons. Here the Trump regime has outdone all its predecessors.

Did Britain’s most important ambassador compromise the lives of British soldiers with his love affair with a former CNN journalist? And why isn’t the Foreign office investigating?

The recent announcement that Washington would be lifting U.S. sanctions on Sudan in return for Sudan’s normalization with Israel is a case study of U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East.

It is a tragedy of our age that society has been locked in a zero-sum operating system for so long that many people living in the west cannot even imagine a world order designed in any other way…

Moscow may need to seriously revise its relations with Ankara, and let Erdogan know he is treading on red lines.

Michael T. KLARE

Israel may view the United Arab Emirates as one of its few allies in the Arab World. However, the UAE’s embrace of Israel does not enjoy universal support in the seven emirates that make up the oil-rich federation. One of the constituent emirates, Ras al Khaimah – sometimes referred to merely as “RAK” – has had a stormy relationship with the chief emirate in the unequal federation, Abu Dhabi.

Watching the network news on television or reading about current events in the newspapers seemingly transports one to an alternate universe where nothing seems to make sense.